"DEAR SIR,--I have yours of 24th inst. I have received responses from several gentlemen to whom I addressed letters similar to that to which you reply, and I have been awaiting your reply before proceeding to name a time and place for our meeting. I am still of opinion that good will result from a meeting of the chairmen of the executive committees of the Northern and border States, by securing unanimity of sentiments or discovering the points of difference, as well as from discussing the general plan of campaign. I have thought of suggesting _Washington_ as the place of meeting, and about _Febry. 1st_ as the time. If the time and place suit you, and you will so advise me, I will proceed to notify the chairmen of all of the Democratic committees and invite their attendance. "Very respy. yrs., "WM. A. WALLACE." FOOTNOTES: [31] Mr. Lincoln was elected President on the 7th Nov., 1860. [32] A kind man and enjoying the confidence of Mr. Marcy who had been Secretary of War under President Pierce. [33] Mr. O'Sullivan had been appointed, by President Buchanan, Minister to Portugal. [34] It is presumed that the work here referred to is an account from Van Buren's pen of the administrations of President Jackson and his own. It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Van Buren did not, to that extent, at least, become his own biographer. [35] Mr. Gillett was a neighbor, a friend, and the authorized biographer of Silas Wright. His letter is only interesting as another illustration of the diversities of opinion among the spectators, about the first thing to do when the neighbor's house is on fire. The letter of Mr. Tilden to Judge William Kent first appeared in the _Evening Post_ in 1860, and was republished in the New York _World_ in 1863. [36] Mr. Taylor was appointed Harbor Master of New York, in Jan'y, 1873, by Governor Hoffman. [37] Mr. Hogeboom was a lawyer in Hudson, Columbia County, of which county Mr. Tilden also was a native. [38] A lawyer from Watertown, Mass., who settled in New York city, and was the author of _Several Studies of the Federal Constitution_, of _The Last Years of Daniel Webster_, and _The Law of Copyright_. In the Civil War his sympathies were with the insurgent States. He died in 1894. [39] Martin Van Buren had died in July, 1862. [40] Mr. Eames took the first honors of his class at Harvard University; studied law in New York; married the eldest daughter of Judge Campbell, then Surrogate of New York city. On the election of Polk he took up his residence in Washington, and during the Civil War was much employed by the government in the Supreme Court, as counsel of the Navy Department, in resisting illegal claims. [41] The difference in the amounts received by General Grant and the amounts subscribed was doubtless cash from the donors whose names were withheld. 1868-1871 S. L. M. BARLOW TO TILDEN OBJECTIONS TO HENDRICKS AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE "_Private._